I am here typing this at 1am in the morning and I have to wake up at 6.30am to work. I'm working 7 days this week. I don't know how much longer I can take it. The peak period never seems to be stopping. I use to think I like this kind of job but now I think I'm too old for it. I cannot forever be running orientation camps my whole life. Physically and mentally too tiring now at this age to do it. And especially when my boss don't buy the idea of letting the scholars form their own club so that they can run events themselves instead of us, the office people running events for the students. Back in my time, where got this kind of luxury? It's all student-initiated and run by students on their own. It's bad when your boss is an ex-teacher who is a control freak over the students and worry about too many things. Uni students are not secondary school kids anymore. Like my friend was saying, if the students don't have ownership of the things they do, there is no sense of responsibility and that is why we are having so much trouble now rallying the students when we needed help.
The situation is just bad.....
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I'm just very cynical about this whole mothering over the brainier youths of our nation.
If they have never been inside the box (read: do the work on their own), how can they then be made to think out of the box when the box never even existed for them?
At the end of the day, are we helping them or ruining them (and ourselves)?
Sigh. Poor you.
~ moo moo
oh ya... tell me about it. Actually not just them but a lot of kids are being mothered spoilt.
But these so-called brains are also nothing much la. It's a sad thing when you get to see the brains from overseas vs the local ones. I emailed this China scholar to help me and immediately he called me up whereas just now we are asking this local girl to volunteer for an item and she gave us such a bad attitude. I really feel bad for the locals that they turned out this way. It's like as if giving her the scholarship is a matter-of-fact deal.
Sighs...
Totally agreed. I also realise that our local kids take things too much for granted. I note the difference in the attitude between our local kids and the foreign ones.
The Thai & China kids come here with a huge handicap in their ENG but that never deterred them from giving up. They actually are willing to sit through with me in the afternoons and even at night for extra lessons. They even go through the pains of translating everything, WORD BY WORD!
Our local kids? Well, to get them to give up their sleep in the afternoons for extra lessons is like asking them to jump off the building. They make me seem as though I LIKE doing extras for them, the royal highnesses.
So do I feel any sympathy that the local kids are losing out opportunities to the foreigners? I would just say let the better person win.
~ moo
tsk tsk.... the sad state of affairs....
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